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The Polynesians / by Haywood, John,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [62]), Internet addresses and index."A discussion of the early Polynesians, including who they were, where they lived, the rise of civilization, social structure, religion, art and architecture, science and technology, daily life, entertainment and sports, and fall of civilization. Features include timelines, fact boxes, glossary, list of recommended reading and web sites"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Polynesians;
© c2009., World Book,
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Sea people / by Thompson, Christina,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Polynesians;
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Moana [videorecording] / by Bush, Jared,1974-screenwriter.; Clement, Jemaine,voice actor.; Clements, Ron,film director.; Cravalho, Auli'i,voice actor.; Foa'i, Opetaia,composer (expression); Hall, Don,film director.; House, Rachel,voice actor.; Johnson, Dwayne,1972-voice actor.; Mancina, Mark,composer (expression); Miranda, Lin-Manuel,1980-composer (expression); Morrison, Temuera,voice actor.; Musker, John,film director.; Scherzinger, Nicole,1978-voice actor.; Tudyk, Alan,voice actor.; Williams, Chris,1971-film director.; Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Camera, Rob Dressel, Adolph Lusinsky ; production designer, Ian Gooding ; editor, Jeff Draheim ; music, Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foa'i, Lin-Manuel Miranda.Voices: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Jemaine Clement, Nicole Scherzinger.An epic adventure about a spirited teen who sets sail on a daring mission to save her people. Along the way, Moana (Auli'i Cravalho) meets the once mighty demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson), and together they cross the ocean on a fun-filled, action-packed voyage.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0 ; widescreen 2.40:1.
Subjects: Children's films.; Action and adventure films.; Animated films.; Comedy films.; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Adventure and adventurers; Gods, Polynesian; Ocean travel; Polynesians; Women heroes;
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Moana. [videorecording] / by Cravalho, Auli'i,2000-voice actor.; Derrick, David G.,1978-film director.; Fraser, Awhimai,voice actor.; Hand, Jason,film director.; House, Rachel,voice actor.; Johnson, Dwayne,1972-voice actor.; Matafeo, Rose,1992-voice actor.; Miller, Dana Ledoux,film director,screenwriter.; Morrison, Temuera,voice actor.; Scherzinger, Nicole,1978-voice actor.; Tudyk, Alan,voice actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Walt Disney Animation Studios,production company.;
Voices: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Alan Tudyk, Rachel House, Nicole Scherzinger, Temuera Morrison, Rose Matafeo, Awhimai Fraser.An epic animated musical takes audiences on an expansive new voyage with Moana, Maui and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her way-finding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Musical films.; Comedy films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Māui (Polynesian deity); Moana (Fictitious character); Adventure and adventurers; Gods, Polynesian; Ocean travel; Polynesians; Women heroes; Quests (Expeditions); Women adventurers; Women explorers;
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The wayfinder : a novel / by Johnson, Adam,1967-author.;
"A grand historical novel about a girl from a remote Polynesian island who goes on an epic journey to the heart of the Tongan Empire, from the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Queens; Voyages and travels; War; Young women;
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Pacific Banana. by D. Lamond, John,film director.; Best, Alyson,actor.; Gray, Deborah,actor.; Blundell, Graeme,actor.; Peters, Luan,actor.; Stewart, Robin,actor.; Umbrella Entertainment (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Alyson Best, Deborah Gray, Graeme Blundell, Luan Peters, Robin StewartOriginally produced by Umbrella Entertainment in 1981.Martin (Graeme Blundell) has got a little problem that keeps getting bigger all the time… and the girls will go to any lengths to help him stand up for himself. Take one clapped-out aircraft, two randy airline pilots, two sexy, willing air hostesses, one bosomy tour director, a host of madcap passengers, plus an idyllic French Polynesian setting and you have all the ingredients for a bawdy, rollicking comedy in the Alvin Purple tradition. PACIFIC BANANA is the breast of Aussie retro cinema!Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Independent films.; Motion pictures--Australia.; Aeronautics.; Work environment.;
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Tupaia’s Endeavour. by Rolls, Lala,film director.; Ronin Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Ronin Films in 2020.A first contact story, told from a Pacific point of view. When James Cook, captain of the British ship Endeavour, took his first steps on the un-colonised shores of Aotearoa/New Zealand in 1769, he set in train a violent collision with the existing Māori occupants. The first meeting between Māori and Europeans would have ended disastrously for Cook and his crew, if not for Tupaia, a Polynesian who had joined the Endeavour expedition in Tahiti. Who was Tupaia - this high-priest, star-navigator, and extraordinary artist? He is left out of European history books, yet today his imprint lives on in modern Aotearoa/New Zealand. New Zealand-born artist Michel Tuffery (who is of Samoan/Rarotongan/Tahitian heritage) and Māori actor Kirk Torrance, with scholars and Māori tangata whenua (people of the land) alongside them, retrace the footsteps of Tupaia in true Polynesian style. Under the gaze of their ancestors, with song, haka and humour, they make startling new discoveries that rewrite history, cementing Tupaia’s role as a central figure in Pacific history.TUPAIA'S ENDEAVOUR was shot in Tahiti, Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK over eight years with each shoot unveiling new revelations and with Michel, Kirk and the whole film crew embodying the story physically, spiritually and emotionally. Backed with the Endeavour journals and the historical rigour of renowned anthropologist, historian and writer, Dame Anne Salmond, and in collaboration with Prof. Paul Tapsell (of the iwi Ngāti Whakaue and Ngāti Raukawa), it is a project that gathered research from the ground up, allowing Indigenous knowledge to lead in the creation of a compelling work, both as a film and as an educational resource.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Documentary films.; History.; Aboriginal Australians.;
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Call me Ishmaelle / by Guo, Xiaolu,1973-author.;
"1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York. Nearly twenty years later, as the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards the Nimrod, a whaling ship led by the obsessive Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature who is haunted by a tragic past. Here, she finds protectors amidst the bloody male violence of whaling and discovers a mysterious bond between herself and the white whale who claimed Seneca's leg. Built on the bones of Melville's classic, Call Me Ishmaelle is a dynamic new tale, imbued with a diverse, swashbuckling crew -- from a Polynesian harpooner to a Taoist Monk -- and a powerful exploration of human nature, gender, and the nature of home"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Enslaved persons; Orphans; Whaling ships; Women;
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Endeavour : the ship that changed the world / by Moore, Peter,1983-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-363) and index.An unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized world. The Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. It was a commonplace coal-carrying vessel that no one could have guessed would go on to become the most significant ship in the chronicle of British exploration. The first history of its kind, Peter Moore's Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship's role in shaping the Western world. Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Yet it was a ship with many lives: During the battles for control of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the republic. As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest, and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. NASA ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor. But to others she would be a toxic symbol of imperialism. Through careful research, Moore tells the story of one of history's most important sailing ships, and in turn shines new light on the ambition and consequences of the Age of Enlightenment.
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779.; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Endeavour (Ship); Navigation;
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Call Me Ishmaelle [electronic resource] / by Guo, Xiaoluaut; CloudLibrary;
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A propulsive powerhouse of a read.”—Marie Claire (UK) “Ambitious, brave, and strange.”—Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman and a diverse, swashbuckling crew I must work on a ship as a man . . . I must find freedom on the seas. 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York. Years later, as the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards the Nimrod, a whaling ship led by the obsessive Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature who is haunted by a tragic past. Here, she finds protectors amidst the bloody male violence of whaling and discovers a mysterious bond between herself and the white whale who claimed Seneca’s leg. Built on the bones of Melville’s classic, Call Me Ishmaelle is a dynamic new tale, imbued with an eclectic crew—from a Polynesian harpooner to a Taoist Monk—and a powerful exploration of human nature, gender, man’s place among the animals, and the nature of home.Electronic reproduction.Online resource; title from digital title page (CloudLibrary, viewed January 14, 2026).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Historical; FICTION; Coming of Age;
© 2026., Grove Atlantic,
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